2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics

2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics

Host city	Lille Métropole, France
Nations participating	173
Athletes participating	1375
Events	40
Dates	6–10 July
Main venue	Stadium Lille-Métropole
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The 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics were the seventh edition of the World Youth Championships in Athletics. They were held in Lille Métropole, France, with stadium-based events at Stadium Lille-Métropole in Villeneuve d'Ascq, on 6–10 July 2011. Eligible athletes were aged 16 or 17 on 31 December 2011 (born in 1994 or 1995). The event had record participation levels, with 1375 athletes (757 boys/618 girls) from 173 countries entering the tournament.^[1]

Over the five-day competition, forty track and field events were contested (20 for boys and 20 for girls). A total of five world youth best marks were set in Lille. New Zealand's Jacko Gill won the shot put by four metres, improving his own youth best to 24.35 m. Jake Stein collected a record 6491 points in the octathlon, while Leonard Kirwa Kosencha of Kenya ran a world youth best of 1:44.08 minutes for the 800 metres. The United States boys and Jamaican girls ran record times to win their respective medley relay events. Four further championship records were also broken at the competition.

Host stadium in Lille

The United States topped the medals table (six golds and 16 in total), closely followed by Kenya, which took five golds and 14 altogether from the middle- and long-distance races. Jamaica came third, winning most of its medals in the sprints and jumps, although Fedrick Dacres made history by taking the country's first ever gold in the discus throw.^[2] The same top-three order occurred in the points table, which took into account placings in the top eight of each event.^[3]

Medal summary[]

Boys[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Odail Todd  Jamaica	10.51 PB	Kazuma Oseto  Japan	10.52	Mickaël Zézé  France	10.57
200 metres details	Stephen Newbold  Bahamas	20.89 PB	Odail Todd  Jamaica	21.00 PB	Ronald Darby  United States	21.08
400 metres details	Arman Hall  United States	46.01 WYL	Alphas Kishoyian  Kenya	46.58	Patryk Dobek  Poland	46.67 PB
800 metres details	Leonard Kirwa Kosencha  Kenya	1:44.08 WYB	Mohammed Aman  Ethiopia	1:44.68 PB	Timothy Kitum  Kenya	1:44.98 PB
1500 metres details	Teshome Dirirsa  Ethiopia	3:39.13 PB	Kenya	3:39.17 PB	Jonathan Kiplimo Sawe  Kenya	3:39.54
3000 metres	Kenya	7:40.10 CR	Kenya	7:40.47 PB	Abrar Osman  Eritrea	7:40.89 PB
110 metres hurdles details	Andries van der Merwe  South Africa	13.41	New Zealand	13.44 PB	Wilhem Belocian  France	13.51 PB
400 metres hurdles details	Russia	50.97 WYL	Saudi Arabia	51.14 PB	Japan	51.26 PB
2000 metres steeplechase details	Conseslus Kipruto  Kenya	5:28.65 WYL	Kenya	5:30.49	Uganda	5:37.98 PB
Medley relay	United States Ronald Darby Aldrich Bailey Najee Glass Arman Hall	1:49.47 WYB	Japan Kazuma Oseto Akiyuki Hashimoto	1:50.69 PB	France Wilhem Belocian Mickaël Zézé Thomas Jordier	1:51.81 PB
10,000 metres walk	Pavel Parshin  Russia	40:51.31 CR	Kenny Martín Pérez  Colombia	40:59.25 PB	Mexico	41:09.60 PB
High jump	Gaël Lévecque  France	2.13 m PB	Russia	2.13 m PB	United States	2.13 m
Pole vault	Robert Renner  Slovenia	5.25 m PB	Melker Svärd-Jacobsson  Sweden	5.15 m	Jacob Blankenship  United States	5.05 m
Long jump	China	7.83 m PB	Sweden	7.44 m	Italy	7.42 m
Triple jump	Latario Collie-Minns  Bahamas	16.06 m	South Africa	15.95 m	Bahamas	15.51 m
Shot put	Jacko Gill  New Zealand	24.35 m WYB	Tyler Schultz  United States	20.35 m PB	Braheme Days, Jr.  United States	20.14 m PB
Discus throw	Fedrick Dacres  Jamaica	67.05 m WYL	Ethan Cochran  United States	61.37 m PB	Gerhard de Beer  South Africa	60.63 m PB
Hammer throw	Bence Pásztor  Hungary	82.60 m CR	Özkan Baltaci  Turkey	78.63 m PB	Serhiy Reheda  Ukraine	74.06 m
Javelin throw	Reinhard van Zyl  South Africa	82.96 m PB	Morné Moolman  South Africa	80.99 m	China	77.62 m
Octathlon	Jake Stein  Australia	6491 WYB	Sweden	6127 PB	Felipe dos Santos  Brazil	5966 PB

Girls[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Jennifer Madu  United States	11.57 PB	United States	11.61	Christania Williams  Jamaica	11.63
200 metres	Desiree Henry  Great Britain	23.25 WYL	Canada	23.47 PB	Shericka Jackson  Jamaica	23.62
400 metres details	Shaunae Miller  Bahamas	51.84 PB	Canada	52.12 PB	Jamaica	52.14 PB
800 metres	Ajee' Wilson  United States	2:02.64 PB	Wang Chunyu  China	2:03.23 PB	Jessica Judd  Great Britain	2:03.43
1500 metres details	Faith Kipyegon  Kenya	4:09.48 CR	Senbere Teferi  Ethiopia	4:10.54 PB	Ethiopia	4:11.56 PB
3000 metres details	Ethiopia	8:56.36 WYL	Kenya	8:56.82 PB	Caroline Chepkoech Kipkirui  Kenya	8:58.63 PB
100 metres hurdles details	United States	13.11 WYL	Noemi Zbären   Switzerland	13.17 PB	Kendell Williams  United States	13.28 PB
400 metres hurdles details	United States	57.93 WYL	Sarah Carli  Australia	58.05 PB	Surian Hechavarría  Cuba	58.37 PB
2000 metres steeplechase	Norah Jeruto Tanui  Kenya	6:16.41 WYL	Fadwa Sidi Madane  Morocco	6:20.98 PB	Kenya	6:21.85 PB
Medley relay	Jamaica Christania Williams Shericka Jackson Chris-Ann Gordon	2:03.42 WYB	United States Jennifer Madu Kendall Baisden	2:03.92 SB	Canada Khamica Bingham Sage Watson	2:05.72 PB
5000 metres walk	Kate Veale  Ireland	21:45.59 WYL	China	22:00.15 PB	Russia	22:00.84 PB
High jump details	Ligia Grozav  Romania	1.87 m WYL	Iryna Herashchenko  Ukraine	1.87 m WYL	Chanice Porter  Jamaica	1.82 m
Pole vault	Desiree Singh  Germany	4.25 m WYL	Liz Parnov  Australia	4.20 m SB	Lucy Bryan  Great Britain	4.10 m PB
Long jump	Chanice Porter  Jamaica	6.22 m	Italy	6.17 m	Russia	6.11 m
Triple jump	Sokhna Galle  France	13.62 m	China	13.57 m PB	Ana Peleteiro  Spain	12.92 m
Shot put	Guo Tianqian  China	15.24 m	Sophie McKinna  Great Britain	14.90 m	Germany	14.71 m
Discus throw	Rosalía Vázquez  Cuba	53.51 m	China	52.89 m PB	Shelbi Vaughan  United States	52.58 m
Hammer throw	Louisa James  Great Britain	57.13 m PB	Malwina Kopron  Poland	57.03 m PB	Romania	56.75 m PB
Javelin throw	Christin Hussong  Germany	59.74 m WYL	Sofi Flinck  Sweden	54.62 m PB	Monique Cilione  Australia	52.77 m PB
Heptathlon	Cuba	5697 WYL	Yorgelis Rodriguez  Cuba	5671 PB	Marjolein Lindemans  Belgium	5532 PB

Medal table[]

  *   Host nation (France)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	6	4	6	16
2	Kenya (KEN)	5	5	4	14
3	Jamaica (JAM)	4	1	4	9
4	Bahamas (BAH)	3	0	1	4
5	China (CHN)	2	4	1	7
6	Ethiopia (ETH)	2	2	1	5
	South Africa (RSA)	2	2	1	5
8	Great Britain (GBR)	2	1	2	5
	Russia (RUS)	2	1	2	5
10	Cuba (CUB)	2	1	1	4
11	France (FRA)*	2	0	3	5
12	Germany (GER)	2	0	1	3
13	Australia (AUS)	1	2	1	4
14	New Zealand (NZL)	1	1	0	2
15	Romania (ROU)	1	0	1	2
16	Hungary (HUN)	1	0	0	1
	Ireland (IRL)	1	0	0	1
	Slovenia (SLO)	1	0	0	1
19	Sweden (SWE)	0	4	0	4
20	Canada (CAN)	0	2	1	3
	Japan (JPN)	0	2	1	3
22	Italy (ITA)	0	1	1	2
	Poland (POL)	0	1	1	2
	Ukraine (UKR)	0	1	1	2
25	Colombia (COL)	0	1	0	1
	Morocco (MAR)	0	1	0	1
	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	0	1
	Turkey (TUR)	0	1	0	1
30	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
	Brazil (BRA)	0	0	1	1
	Eritrea (ERI)	0	0	1	1
	Mexico (MEX)	0	0	1	1
	Spain (ESP)	0	0	1	1
	Uganda (UGA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (35 nations)		40	40	40	120

• All Information taken from IAAF's website.

Participating nations[]

References[]

Session reports

• Martin, Dave (2011-07-06). Sprint hurdler Zbaren confirms world leader status - Lille 2011 - Day 1, Morning report. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-08-01.
• Martin, Dave (2011-07-06). Historic firsts for Ethiopia and Jamaica, five world Youth leads the highlights in Lille – Day 1, Evening Report. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-08-01.
• Martin, Dave (2011-07-07). Gill looking to improve World best in Shot Put final – Lille 2011 - Day 2, Morning report. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-08-01.
• Martin, Dave (2011-07-07). World Youth bests by Gill and Stein in – Lille 2011 – Day 2, Evening Report. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-08-01.
• Martin, Dave (2011-07-08). Tanui rises to No. 4 youth all-time in 2000m Steeplechase - Lille 2011 - Day 3, Morning report. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-08-01.
• Martin, Dave (2011-07-08). Hall and Miller fulfill favourites’ roles with 400m triumphs - Lille 2011 - Day 3, Evening report. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-08-01.
• Martin, Dave (2011-07-09). In dramatic finish, Parshin takes 10,000m Race Walk title - Lille 2011 - Day 4, Morning report. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-08-01.
• Martin, Dave (2011-07-09). Kosencha blazes 1:44.08 World Youth best - Lille 2011 - Day 4, Evening report. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-08-01.
• Martin, Dave (2011-07-10). Sitonik’s impressive 3000m caps the action as curtain draws on World Youth champs - Lille 2011 - Day 5 report. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-08-01.

External links[]

• Official results
• Official competition website
• Official 2011 World Youth Championships website at IAAF